Re: [Caml-list] Printf question

[Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 02:11:14AM +0200, Olivier Andrieu wrote:
> You could use the %a format. See the Prinf module documentation : 
> 
>    * `a': user-defined printer. Takes two arguments and apply the first
>      one to `outchan' (the current output channel) and to the second
>      argument. The first argument must therefore have type `out_channel
>      -> 'b -> unit' and the second `'b'.  The output produced by the
>      function is therefore inserted in the output of `fprintf' at the
>      current point.
> 
> (that's for fprintf, for sprintf the printer would be of type 
>  `unit -> 'b -> string')

I guess the problem with this is that I lose any type safety,
which is the whole point of doing things this way.

Rich.

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